Finally, how is this any different than all the cameras on every street corner in cities like London?
It's not any different and it's just as disturbing that no one seems to give a fuck. Those that do happen to give a fuck are labeled terrorists, anti-American, sympathizers, and troublemakers.
I don't bother to report mine to Comcast either because they don't do anything about it above and beyond their automated system checks anyway. They get enough abuse@ contacts that they cannot be concerned with some idiot that is running an open proxy.
Fortunately for me, I have a Visi DSL connection and they allow servers to be run without issue. Good thing too as I top 4.5 GB of transfer on average a month for my web server alone.
The bad news is that it may be harder for them to detect and eliminate, but the good news is that it may keep down multiple infections?
Well you can certainly find their clients. They are the ones that are constantly hitting your web server with POST commands with no preceding GET, have strange referrers, or stupid browser identification (AmigaOS or C64, etc).
I really wish that the residential cable ISPs would shutdown these fucking connections faster. My ban list is nearly unmanageable now, if it continues, it will only get worse.
Because, at the time that I was using the DeskJet, I didn't have the money to purchase one with the toner nor did I have the space to put it in. Remember, I was in college after all.
If I were to do it now, I would probably find a used HP LaserJet 4100N (I have used them at my previous job for several years without issue printing upwards of 10,000 pages a month) but I would still run into the ~$118/cartridge toner charges even with recycling.
I don't have a need for a printer at my house and while I have an old and unused DeskJet in my closet for an emergency, I can't see using it or any other printer when for most stuff I can just stall until Monday morning to print whatever I have to on the color laser printer at work.
But the Edgeline does seem like a nice printer, though. $50 says that in 5 years, every office will have one (that they own).
I'm not sure why they are now just claiming that they are ink efficient. My HP DeskJet 400C was so ink efficient that I used the same black and white cartridge for 5 years in college until it completely broke down and several hardware rollers came out with the final page of my Senior Thesis.
I replaced it with another HP DeskJet expecting the same kind of service level but found that the printer hardware was cheap, the ink needed to be replaced MUCH MORE often (every two months at my levels), and that it was sometimes less money to buy a new DeskJet each time at Walmart than to replace the ink cartridge.
I don't own a printer any more and only use a printer at work when I absolutely must have something printed out (tax time is about the only thing I can think of in recent memory).
Let's go back to the ink efficient days of the DeskJet 400C and fuck these contract based service packages.
I have three laptops, a Mac Mini, and a Linux server. I also have two Windows machines in various stages of disrepair that because of the laptops and their comparatively low power consumption, will probably remain that way for now.
One of the laptops is my wife's but the rest are used by us both in various ways. Why do I have so many? Because they all serve a different purpose and they are necessary?
Just because YOU can't understand it doesn't mean it isn't viable. How many TVs do you have operating in your home? I have one and in this day and age, that's just as strange as having 5 PCs.
From what I understand from rumors heard before the departure of Dennis and Alex, formally of Google's Dodgeball, they are tied up in endless meetings and conference calls rather than having the opportunity to work on their project.
That has nothing to do with what I said. What I said was that they don't want people to figure out for themselves what their music tastes are. They want to be able to force feed you what they want to.
People that are force fed something don't know what they want and thus have no taste.
They clearly have no idea how much Pandora has done to sell me their product. I have actually purchased CDs I would never have known existed were it not for internet radio. They're killing the goose that lays golden eggs.
They aren't trying to sell YOU their product. They are trying to sell their product to people with no true music taste. They want to sell them *whatever* they put out regardless of its quality. The only way to do this is to 100% control the delivery method so that they can control every aspect of the market from the beginning (ala American Idol).
People that are looking to self-determine the path that their music tastes follow aren't likely to participate in a culture created entirely for them and that doesn't help the RIAA's mission at all.
I agree that high quality analog recordings are a good thing to keep around for posterity, but analog recordings certainly aren't better for home reproduction (they'll get a little worse every time you play them), unless you don't mind having to repurchase albums every so often.
Oh I get it! The RIAA wants these to come back so that they can get you to download and pay for a digital copy for your portable media player and have to keep repurchasing your physical medium as well!
This is the "new" "old" DRM. Vinyl, the gift that keeps on giving...to the RIAA.
What ever happened to the idea of targeting willing people? I'm not interested in whatever you want to sell me, so don't waste your time or mine forcing me to watch an advertisement. If anything, you'll make me less likely to purchase whatever it is you want me to buy.
Because they have found that in order to purchase information about targeted groups costs more than just information about a larger unspecified group. The returns are about the same regardless (somewhere between 1 and 2% on average and up to 10% depending on the application) so why not annoy as many people as possible?
It's unfortunate, but in this day and age people are so accustomed to the advertising barrage that they don't make a sound. When you do complain you are labeled an asshole.
That will kill self-made videos in no time. Who really wants to wait through a 3 minute ad for tampons to watch a 2 minute rambing of a camwhore? I certainly don't want to do that.
You don't necessarily have to be mandated to watch the commercials, there is just an option to force it now. Copyright holders who are releasing self-made videos won't have to opt-in (depending on how any of the video sharing sites' (GooTube's) management decides to handle this I suppose) to allow the ads.
I think that this is a pointless move. Flash video exploded because it was fast and there weren't forcible ads and DRM.
I would like to see the same board underline how cooperate owned news media, and human written reference material are that much more reliable that partially peer reviewed, but publicly refutable medium.
They can't. Someone up the food chain saw that Wikipedia isn't being allowed as a secondary source in college Foo and they decided they would be cool and block it outright too. This does nothing but incorrectly educate the student into believing that Wikipedia isn't correct.
Now, what they should have done (in secondary schools they usually have a librarian teach this) is sit the students down and have a discussion about using primary and secondary sources and how using a variety of different ones is what makes a good research paper. While a single primary source might be all that's available, several secondary sources should be used to back up the information presented.
But why bother with that when you can just knee-jerk ban it instead of actually using it as a tool to teach better research methods?
Then he's just hurting his own revenue stream by having Slashdot traffic come to his site. Slashdotters are notoriously anti-advertisement and are more likely to use ad blocking software or just totally ignore the ads even though they are displayed.
Because Google pays you only for ads that are clicked as a ratio of those that are displayed, people driving a fuckload of clickless traffic to their sites are just making their possibility of revenue plummet. He'd be better off touting his post to a non-nerd community like Joe Blow on some other site than having it linked to from Slashdot.
While I agree he should adopt a more ethical writing style, I don't think he was doing it for the money.
Too many fucking crooks get their way in suits when homeowners protect themselves against the illegal entry/theft. If those pieces of shit are getting their way I can't imagine that the "legalized" pieces of shit would be treated any differently.
I think that if the Bush Administration gets this that the American Public should have the ability to walk into Bush's bedroom at night -- after all, him and his lapdog cronies have perpetrated more spying, illegal activity and terrorism than any single citizen of this country.
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I'd try to crack the stuff from a number of different fronts, but keep quiet until I've cracked a few. With several cracks and exploits found, I'd be able to start working on higher level cracks, due to understanding the system.
No, it's better to keep the industry fucking around with each one as they come out than to have a couple at once (hell, how do you know they haven't already cracked a few into the future?).
This kind of release pattern will continue to drive the industry bonkers while they try to yank licenses, patch bugs, and obsolete hardware and keys.
From Goodfellas (talking about the frequent raids):
There was always a little harassment. They always wanted to talk to Henry about this or that. They'd come in with their subpoenas and warrants and make me sign. But mostly they were just looking for a handout, a few bucks to keep things quiet, no matter what they found.
I am thrilled with this guy as I was when he did this with the NWA boarding pass security risk before. Again, it's great to have someone out there like this pointing out the insecure methods the general masses rely on daily.
You have a choice of cell phone carriers. You don't have a choice of internet service providers. You have whoever has a monopoly on your phone service in your region and whoever has a monopoly on your cable service in your region. If you terminate your service early, exactly where are you going to go?!
You do have a choice about whether or not you are going to enter into a multi-month contract with the provider to receive a reduced rate for the services they provide. You aren't required, by any means, to accept their $29.95/month for 6 month deals that they offer when you start new service -- if you think that you might not be able to keep the service for that long, don't fucking take the deal and instead pay the full price.
Do I like the fact that the CATV and Telcos have legal monopolies? No. Do I care if someone is fucking stupid, enters a contract with the devil, tries to get out early and gets burned? No.
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People think they need color for some reason. Why I'm not exactly sure.
Wow, you're still using an amber or green CRT? Wicked retro man!
Finally, how is this any different than all the cameras on every street corner in cities like London?
It's not any different and it's just as disturbing that no one seems to give a fuck. Those that do happen to give a fuck are labeled terrorists, anti-American, sympathizers, and troublemakers.
I don't bother to report mine to Comcast either because they don't do anything about it above and beyond their automated system checks anyway. They get enough abuse@ contacts that they cannot be concerned with some idiot that is running an open proxy.
Fortunately for me, I have a Visi DSL connection and they allow servers to be run without issue. Good thing too as I top 4.5 GB of transfer on average a month for my web server alone.
The bad news is that it may be harder for them to detect and eliminate, but the good news is that it may keep down multiple infections?
Well you can certainly find their clients. They are the ones that are constantly hitting your web server with POST commands with no preceding GET, have strange referrers, or stupid browser identification (AmigaOS or C64, etc).
I really wish that the residential cable ISPs would shutdown these fucking connections faster. My ban list is nearly unmanageable now, if it continues, it will only get worse.
Why don't you just buy a laser printer?
Because, at the time that I was using the DeskJet, I didn't have the money to purchase one with the toner nor did I have the space to put it in. Remember, I was in college after all.
If I were to do it now, I would probably find a used HP LaserJet 4100N (I have used them at my previous job for several years without issue printing upwards of 10,000 pages a month) but I would still run into the ~$118/cartridge toner charges even with recycling.
I don't have a need for a printer at my house and while I have an old and unused DeskJet in my closet for an emergency, I can't see using it or any other printer when for most stuff I can just stall until Monday morning to print whatever I have to on the color laser printer at work.
But the Edgeline does seem like a nice printer, though. $50 says that in 5 years, every office will have one (that they own).
I'm not sure why they are now just claiming that they are ink efficient. My HP DeskJet 400C was so ink efficient that I used the same black and white cartridge for 5 years in college until it completely broke down and several hardware rollers came out with the final page of my Senior Thesis.
I replaced it with another HP DeskJet expecting the same kind of service level but found that the printer hardware was cheap, the ink needed to be replaced MUCH MORE often (every two months at my levels), and that it was sometimes less money to buy a new DeskJet each time at Walmart than to replace the ink cartridge.
I don't own a printer any more and only use a printer at work when I absolutely must have something printed out (tax time is about the only thing I can think of in recent memory).
Let's go back to the ink efficient days of the DeskJet 400C and fuck these contract based service packages.
I have three laptops, a Mac Mini, and a Linux server. I also have two Windows machines in various stages of disrepair that because of the laptops and their comparatively low power consumption, will probably remain that way for now.
One of the laptops is my wife's but the rest are used by us both in various ways. Why do I have so many? Because they all serve a different purpose and they are necessary?
Just because YOU can't understand it doesn't mean it isn't viable. How many TVs do you have operating in your home? I have one and in this day and age, that's just as strange as having 5 PCs.
Is there any reason to believe this will actually be so?
It's probably not going to be used for passenger trains which requires added safety and more tunnels.
Unfortunately, in many cases, neither are the parents.
;) but that's not up to the government to "protect" us from.
Well, you know how I am
The simple fact of the matter is that the government isn't there to parent our children for us.
I think every single legitimate sale could be considered a victory.
From Microsoft's perspective. From the user's perspective it can be considered a loss.
Personally, I did mine back in February.
So did I. I also found out that I owe the war effort $792. You think I'm going to pay them in February? No. They got paid the day it was due.
From what I understand from rumors heard before the departure of Dennis and Alex, formally of Google's Dodgeball, they are tied up in endless meetings and conference calls rather than having the opportunity to work on their project.
That has nothing to do with what I said. What I said was that they don't want people to figure out for themselves what their music tastes are. They want to be able to force feed you what they want to.
People that are force fed something don't know what they want and thus have no taste.
They clearly have no idea how much Pandora has done to sell me their product. I have actually purchased CDs I would never have known existed were it not for internet radio. They're killing the goose that lays golden eggs.
They aren't trying to sell YOU their product. They are trying to sell their product to people with no true music taste. They want to sell them *whatever* they put out regardless of its quality. The only way to do this is to 100% control the delivery method so that they can control every aspect of the market from the beginning (ala American Idol).
People that are looking to self-determine the path that their music tastes follow aren't likely to participate in a culture created entirely for them and that doesn't help the RIAA's mission at all.
I agree that high quality analog recordings are a good thing to keep around for posterity, but analog recordings certainly aren't better for home reproduction (they'll get a little worse every time you play them), unless you don't mind having to repurchase albums every so often.
Oh I get it! The RIAA wants these to come back so that they can get you to download and pay for a digital copy for your portable media player and have to keep repurchasing your physical medium as well!
This is the "new" "old" DRM. Vinyl, the gift that keeps on giving...to the RIAA.
What ever happened to the idea of targeting willing people? I'm not interested in whatever you want to sell me, so don't waste your time or mine forcing me to watch an advertisement. If anything, you'll make me less likely to purchase whatever it is you want me to buy.
Because they have found that in order to purchase information about targeted groups costs more than just information about a larger unspecified group. The returns are about the same regardless (somewhere between 1 and 2% on average and up to 10% depending on the application) so why not annoy as many people as possible?
It's unfortunate, but in this day and age people are so accustomed to the advertising barrage that they don't make a sound. When you do complain you are labeled an asshole.
That will kill self-made videos in no time. Who really wants to wait through a 3 minute ad for tampons to watch a 2 minute rambing of a camwhore? I certainly don't want to do that.
You don't necessarily have to be mandated to watch the commercials, there is just an option to force it now. Copyright holders who are releasing self-made videos won't have to opt-in (depending on how any of the video sharing sites' (GooTube's) management decides to handle this I suppose) to allow the ads.
I think that this is a pointless move. Flash video exploded because it was fast and there weren't forcible ads and DRM.
I would like to see the same board underline how cooperate owned news media, and human written reference material are that much more reliable that partially peer reviewed, but publicly refutable medium.
They can't. Someone up the food chain saw that Wikipedia isn't being allowed as a secondary source in college Foo and they decided they would be cool and block it outright too. This does nothing but incorrectly educate the student into believing that Wikipedia isn't correct.
Now, what they should have done (in secondary schools they usually have a librarian teach this) is sit the students down and have a discussion about using primary and secondary sources and how using a variety of different ones is what makes a good research paper. While a single primary source might be all that's available, several secondary sources should be used to back up the information presented.
But why bother with that when you can just knee-jerk ban it instead of actually using it as a tool to teach better research methods?
Then he's just hurting his own revenue stream by having Slashdot traffic come to his site. Slashdotters are notoriously anti-advertisement and are more likely to use ad blocking software or just totally ignore the ads even though they are displayed.
Because Google pays you only for ads that are clicked as a ratio of those that are displayed, people driving a fuckload of clickless traffic to their sites are just making their possibility of revenue plummet. He'd be better off touting his post to a non-nerd community like Joe Blow on some other site than having it linked to from Slashdot.
While I agree he should adopt a more ethical writing style, I don't think he was doing it for the money.
Too many fucking crooks get their way in suits when homeowners protect themselves against the illegal entry/theft. If those pieces of shit are getting their way I can't imagine that the "legalized" pieces of shit would be treated any differently.
I think that if the Bush Administration gets this that the American Public should have the ability to walk into Bush's bedroom at night -- after all, him and his lapdog cronies have perpetrated more spying, illegal activity and terrorism than any single citizen of this country.
I'd try to crack the stuff from a number of different fronts, but keep quiet until I've cracked a few. With several cracks and exploits found, I'd be able to start working on higher level cracks, due to understanding the system.
No, it's better to keep the industry fucking around with each one as they come out than to have a couple at once (hell, how do you know they haven't already cracked a few into the future?).
This kind of release pattern will continue to drive the industry bonkers while they try to yank licenses, patch bugs, and obsolete hardware and keys.
They will never ever give up and neither will we.
From Goodfellas (talking about the frequent raids):
There was always a little harassment. They always wanted to talk to Henry about this or that. They'd come in with their subpoenas and warrants and make me sign. But mostly they were just looking for a handout, a few bucks to keep things quiet, no matter what they found.
I am thrilled with this guy as I was when he did this with the NWA boarding pass security risk before. Again, it's great to have someone out there like this pointing out the insecure methods the general masses rely on daily.
Yay, another pussy comment from an AC. Douche.
You have a choice of cell phone carriers. You don't have a choice of internet service providers. You have whoever has a monopoly on your phone service in your region and whoever has a monopoly on your cable service in your region. If you terminate your service early, exactly where are you going to go?!
You do have a choice about whether or not you are going to enter into a multi-month contract with the provider to receive a reduced rate for the services they provide. You aren't required, by any means, to accept their $29.95/month for 6 month deals that they offer when you start new service -- if you think that you might not be able to keep the service for that long, don't fucking take the deal and instead pay the full price.
Do I like the fact that the CATV and Telcos have legal monopolies? No. Do I care if someone is fucking stupid, enters a contract with the devil, tries to get out early and gets burned? No.